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...fate for 17 years?glided a hauntingly attractive woman, her black hair streaked with grey, her brown eyes moist and mellow. On her brown shawl she wore a rosebud, just as Nehru had always worn one as his talisman of grace and hope in a sometimes graceless and hopeless land. Her hands held palm to palm in the traditional Indian greeting of namaste, she approached former Finance Minister Morarji Desai. "Will you bless my success?" she asked. "I give you my blessing," he replied. Then Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, took her seat and waited...
Hope for the Hopeless...
...gratifying to read your excellent article on training schools [Jan. 7]. These schools have provided hope for thousands of adolescents for whom the situation was once hopeless. In 1958, after failing the 10th grade for the second time, I attended the Richard Hokes Boys School near Cleveland. This June, I will become an alumnus of another educational institution-Yale University...
...play Helen of Troy, "if," giggled Liz, "I lose 20 pounds." Sammy laughed, perhaps too uproariously. Whereupon the Burtons launched into a shatteringly off-key rendition of a folk song in Welsh. "I love it!" cried Sammy. Burton's reply was more to the point: "It's hopeless." For a closer, the three sang an arrangement of What Do Simple Folk Do?, during which the Burtons shuffled, snapped their fingers, bellowed, and otherwise cavorted just like simple folk...
...elevated language? To an extent. But the magazine's chief offense is not crudity, but irreverence. The Left, both liberal and radical, bickers endlessly about how best to score points for Democracy and Progress. The Right, both conservative and lunatic, takes a glum sort of satisfaction in staging hopeless goal line stands. But Buckley and his legions just sit in the stands and snicker, maliciously...